A. M. Walter

Military/War

War is a Racket by Smedley Butler 

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks

Kabul by Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson 

The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich 

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer 

A War Too Far by David Corley 

The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind 

Intelligence/Gov. Corruption

For Love of Country by Tulsi Gabbard

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Patel 

Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains by J. Michael Waller 

National Security and Double Government by Michael Glennon

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll 

Destroying America: the CIA's Quest to Control the Government by Anthony Frank 

The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot 

The Last Honest Man by James Risen 

Masters of Corruption by Mark Moyar

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins

Geopolitics/History

The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk 

Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare by Seth Jones 

The Hundred Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury 

Taliban by Ahmed Rashid 

The Red Famine by Anne Applebaum 

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead

A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel Sjursen